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This particular show was really just a liberals dream. Not only is the author completly incorrect but conservatism is growing in leaps and bounds. I had to laugh when your guests dilute themselves into thinking that it all hinges on Sarah and Joe the plumber, wishfull thinking. Obama Hussain can do all the latenight TV shows out there, he is failing miserably and America is waking up.

The pro-life people should certainly be out there demonstrating even more than they are, but they're not violent because they regard it as a non-violent civil rights movement. If people really saw what abortion is, there would be an avalanche of protest, we would view it in the same light as we now view slavery.

Good stuff, this.

Todays Republican party is lead by a group of people that do not put the interests of America first. Todays Republicans cater to special interests and takes actions that benefit these special interests. Todays Republicans use a specific ideology to control and maintain the support of a specific group that will keep them in power through their vote. The problem lies in the fact that the special interests and the ideological voter have nothing in common. Todays Republican is the epitomy of hypocrisy and if left to continue in their current state will bring about the demise of the US empire as they almost did under Bush2.

To me, the whole Liberal?Conservative divide today is a false dichotomy. The Democrats and the Republicans are 2 heads of the same monster. They're both in the pocket of the same big money interests, they make it virtually impossible for an independent candidate to run for any major office, and they pit one half of the populace against the other over essentially meaningless cultural issues as a distraction from the true inner workings of government.

Did he just call Andrew Sullivan an intellectual? Is that because of Sullivan's accent?

Didn't Richard Hofstadter describe the conservative & far right ideology perfectly with his "The Paranoid Style of American Politics?"

The real splits seem to me to be between the Business Conservatives, the Theocrats, the libertarians, and the populists. (I'm not using majuscule letters for the last two to avoid confusion with the parties using those names.)

Take abortion: Theocrats came together in the Republican Party over it, and I don't understand why more of them _don't_ get violent over it, given that they believe these foeti, embryos, gastrocysts, blastocysts, and zygotes to be their legal equals. (Honest.) The libertarians don't want government to interfere with it or pay for it; populists tend to often also be theocrats, and their racist tinge makes them prone to saying things like 'Abortion is just a way for Jew Doctors to make money,' or be in favour of it for Darker People (honest). Business conservatives don't want to pay for anyone else's abortion, but are actively in favour of their female employees' being available for work and not using their insurance as much....

Recreational drugs: The libertarians want no drugs laws, including regulation of pharmaceutical contents and advertising. Populists and theocrats again align against them---maybe I should just call them 'cultural conservatives' and have done with it, except populists are more likely to invoke the McGuffey Reader as their Scripture. Business Conservatives don't care, though they like it when coked-up or meth-snorting employees work long hours, and they definitely don't want their children going to jail for drugs when they're caught.

"Realists"indeed.
This group to include Necons that led US into a disastorous Iraq invasion and now pushing for an Iran attack.Yes,the likes of (Iraq will pay for itself)Wolfowitz and war drummer boy,Bill Kristol(his Pappy be the Guru of NEOCONSERVATISM),John Bolton(lacky),Richard Perle,Douglas Feith,Elliot Abrams,and others.These Folks live in the US but seem to adhere to an(Iron wall) Likud Israel based extreme idealogy.These men have been and are in impotrtant positions/forums and have managed to steer American foreign policy into an extreme course.
Now if Israel with several hundred WMD'S does not feel secure,it never will!. There is a cultural problem that needs to be addressed with in that society.The Bush admistration in departing gifted(US taxpayer paid for) Israel with an expensive Radar system to detect incoming missiles.Presently joint US Israel excercises will also leave(gift)Israel with more expensive US DETECTION equipment.
If Israel at $10 million plus a day in US TAXPAYER Aid is not safer to day then 40 years ago then this expensive course is faulty and needs to be challenged.

According to the Christian Science Monitor,the cost of Israel to the American TAXpayer has been over $1.6 TRILLION since 1973.http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1209/p16s01-wmgn.html

I recently heard Sam on a radio program say that revanchists want to go back in time to what they believe was an era of true Americanism/Conservatism yet he seems to be calling for reaching back to Classical Conservatives for his view of what should be modern day Conservatism. Does he see this as a contradiction?